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GNOSTIC BIBLE Barnstone & Meyer New Seeds Boston & London 2006 Mystical Wisdom
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- Publisher
- Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
- Subject
- Religion
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Topic
- Bibles
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Educational Level
- High School
- City
- Boston
- Publication Name
- The Bible
- ISBN
- 9781590301999
- EAN
- 9781590301999
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Number of Pages
- 880 Pages
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A landmark work of scholarship and literary translation,The Gnostic Biblepresents the most significant and beautiful sacred texts of gnostic mysticism. The gnostics were religious thinkers who believed that salvation is found through mystical knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought. Dating from the first to the thirteenth centuries, the selections in this volume represent Jewish, Christian, Hermetic, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar forms of gnostic spirituality, and their sources include Egypt, the Greco-Roman world, the Middle East, Syria, Iraq, China, and France. These texts show that gnosticism was a world religion that sought truths in a wide variety of traditions and expressed those truths in powerful and provocative mystical poetry and prose. This is the first time that such a diverse collection of ancient gnostic texts has been published in a single volume, and many of the texts have never before been translated into English.
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Publisher
Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1590301994
ISBN-13
9781590301999
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109232828
Product Key Features
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Number of Pages
880 Pages
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Weight
42.5 Oz
Height
1.8in
Width
6in
Length
9.2in
Additional Product Features
Edited by
Willis Barnstone, Marvin Meyer
Lc Classification Number
Bt1390
Publication Date
2006-05-09
Reviews
"This book may well be the most comprehensive collection of gnostic materials ever gathered in one volume. What is clear from the sourcebook is the tremendous diversity of thought that exists under the 'gnostic' umbrella including Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, Zoroastrian, and Greco-Roman themes. A valuable resource for students and scholars."Publishers Weekly "The selection of texts ranges across two millennia and various cultures. Each work, some translated into English for the first time, is accompanied by a clear introduction and synopsis. This is an important sampler of relatively unknown spiritual literature."Library Journal "To read The Gnostic Bible is to witness something astonishing. . . . I read it with dizzy excitement."Ian Cant, Ascent Magazine "A Godsend for anyone interested in alternative Christianity, the history of Christianity, or spirituality in general."Turk's Head Review "An enormously rich collection of sourcesa wonderful achievement!"Elaine Pagels, author of The Gnostic Gospels and Beyond Belief "Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer's Gnostic Bible joins Bentley Layton's Gnostic Scriptures as one of the true critical sourcebooks for gnostic texts. Here, from China to Catalonia, from the first to the fourteenth centuries, gnosticism is seen as a global meditation."Harold Bloom, author of Genius: A Mosaic, Hamlet: Poem Unlimited, and The Western Canon "I feel as if I had been waiting for this book all my life."Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet "Everyone interested in the tumultuous origins of Christianity and in a mysticism of direct, unmediated communion with God should fall on this brilliant and ground-breaking book. In it, for the first time, are assembled all the major texts of gnosticism, with illuminating notes and introductions, and in translations that radiate clarity."Andrew Harvey, author of Sun at Midnight, Son of Man, and The Direct Path "These ancient texts have not lost any of their power to awaken higher consciousness. Seekers of knowledge owe an enormous debt to Barnstone and Meyer for presenting these works to us in a fresh, clear, and accessible form."Richard Smoley, author of Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition "In this wonderfully readable anthology the authors have brought together a large number of interesting selections from a wide chronological, geographical, and cultural range of traditions that nevertheless illustrate fascinating overlapping patterns in religious symbolism and worldviews."Michael Williams, author of Rethinking Gnosticism "These two wise men have written an amazing bookthe best of its kind, ever. They bear lit matches in our dark tunnelsometimes they are the matches themselves."Gerald Stern, author of American Sonnets and What I Can't Bear Losing, "An important and most elegantly translated sampler of relatively unknown spiritual literature."-- "Library Journal"
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Trade
Copyright Date
2005
Lccn
2005-018190
Dewey Decimal
299/.932
Publication Year
20060000
Dewey Edition
22
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